the jury is still out on sandy in the sandy recovery. the governor of new jersey had this big fight with the mayor of atlantic city right now over whether he forced enough people to evacuate and so forth. pushing people around and forcing people to do things is not the way to recover him a disaster. there's a lot of literature, including some interesting stuff by great leftist writer about voluntary communities, the way they come together in the face of disaster. and that is what gets things going. we had a horrible disaster in new orleans, and brownie deserved all the planes that he got and so forth, but part of the problem is that we should not be relying on the government to take care of us in these dashing even in these terrible disaster situations. obviously, there's kind of be a situation where you need more brute force, and don't brute force is the one thing government is, in fact, good at. but those tend to have been in the headlines, whether they happen at the individual level. people need to, first of all, be discouraged from b